
(Alternative: Naive – which gives a boost based on number of people you’re at peace with and can stack up rapidly if you’re the peaceful type.

I’ll highlight a few exceptionally good choices though: There are so many options/viable strategies for positive traits that I don’t really want to give you a template for this as you should try and work around your own strengths and weaknesses. Still, it’s the best negative pick after the ‘must haves’. It’s not the end of the world, but it can be a bit of a pain later in the game if you’re engaged in massive wars.

The only effect is that your systems take less time to surrender during an invasion, generally by a few turns at most. You should focus on not having your systems invaded in the first place – if this does happen, having additional points to spend in both industrial capacity or fleet/combat strength is far more valuable to deal with this.

You can tailor the race to your play style and the type of game you are playing and it’s generally the best way to go. In absolutely all cases, a custom faction is better than the pre-made ones. This guide is correct at the time of writing, based on Endless Space v1.0.30.

I’ve played this game quite a bit both before release and after – mostly in multiplayer with James Wells, another author at Mana Pool and during this time there are quite a few things we’ve learned. In order to help you get more out of the game, and hold your own against the harder AI or even in multiplayer, we’ll go through some strategies and general tips. Nevertheless this game is a lot of fun and there are plenty of choices to be made when playing it, leaving many players with a huge number of questions. Worse, it has absolutely no carriers, fighters or space stations which is a big negative). It’s not as indepth as some other titles in the genre and it has some way to go to really approach the level we’d expect and want from a proper 4x title (it’s still a little light on the combat side – especially in terms of ship hull and weapon varieties. Endless Space is a brilliant little 4x game by indie studio Amplitude.
